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181 Gloomy quotes by 155 unique authors

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind… — George Washington
O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being… — Victor Hugo
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but… — Mary Wollstonecraft
We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit. — Berl Katznelson
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul. — Victor Hugo
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops… — Charles Dickens
[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time... — Washington Irving
It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man. — Max Lerner
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four… — Desiderius Erasmus
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn… — Sean O'Casey
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring... — Andre Gide
I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends. — Richard K. Morgan
Religion in its true sense is the most joyous thing the human soul can know, and when the real religion is realized, we will find… — Ralph Waldo Trine
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and… — Horace
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. — Samuel Johnson
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And… — George Crabbe
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping… — Annie Besant
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He… — Robert Greene
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied. — Astrid Lindgren
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world. — Bayard Taylor
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March! — Bayard Taylor
Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he… — Walt Kelly
And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing… — Alphonse de Lamartine
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from… — Wilfrid Sheed

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